EV Graduate Seminar - AD508 F08

presenation-seeking-deeper-contact
In this link you will find the pdf for the presentation of Professor Huhtamo text.
By Julio Obelleiro and Alejandro Borsani.

Kevin:Back in the day, when I was a kid, before Navy Pier had an iMax with 3D movies and immersive experience rides time traveling back in the day, before the building just east of Navy Pier was known on the north bank of the river where it meets the lake suspended the letters R-I-V-E-R & [...]

Art, the first machine. In darkness it sits clumped up and incomprehensible and with the energy of light and our interactive perception it is transformed into context, meaning, and discourse.
Is there a clear cut distinction between interactivity and automation? Seemingly socially and economically yes. The automation of machines creates a supplier and a buyer. A [...]

Endeavoring a cultural “critique of the nature of interactivity” is no small labor. But Huhtam does attempt at inter disciplinarily aware artistic examination of the history through a pseudo-anthropological method. As required, there are plenty of examinations of the status-quo definitions, integration of historical theory in media arts, and the occasional deconstruction of process, relationship [...]

Erkki Huhtamo’s Seeking Deeper Contact: Interactive Art as Metacommentary raises epistemological and aesthetic concerns about interactive artworks. The scope of discourse involves critical theory, literary criticism, cinema studies, media studies, and new media art. Huhtamo’s basic stance is that the nuances of interactive new media art get lost in the larger grammars of interactive media, [...]